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...University statement released yesterday said the plan would attempt to develop new machinery for the recruiting, training and retention of minority and female personnel "at every level of responsibility with special attention to teaching positions." It requires that the University file with HEW quarterly progress reports for "more effective monitoring of Harvard's efforts...
Even now there is no universally accepted definition of the programs that actually constitute the welfare system. But there are six basic elements that HEW considers the core of welfare: Medicaid; Old Age Assistance (OAA); Aid to the Blind (AB); Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled (APTD); the fastest growing, Aid for Dependent Children (AFDC) and General Assistance, a locally used catchall category...
...Calif., where county rules require only identification and a statement of need before aid is issued, dramatized their displeasure with the system by easily getting onto the rolls at several offices. But the fact is that chicanery accounts for a very small part of welfare's cost. The last HEW study estimates that only four out of every 1,000 of those on welfare actually cheat...
Contrary to common belief, only a tiny number of people who may not really need it get aid. As HEW reports flatly: "Even with the best possible services, only about 5% at most [of welfare recipients] can be helped to self-sufficiency within a reasonable length of time." A more realistic figure is probably closer to 2%. The rest are children too young to work, the aged and hopelessly disabled who cannot work, and mothers who have nowhere to leave their children in order to take a job?if one exists...
...AFDC, the typical applicant stays on the rolls for only 23 months, according to HEW figures, though four out of ten return a second time. Moreover, AFDC families are not all large. Their average is four persons, compared with 4.2 in the general population. In two-thirds of the welfare families, all the children had the same parents; an estimated 31% of all children getting aid were born illegitimately...